Lothar Köster (politician)

Lothar Köster (born March 15, 1944 in Langstedt , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a German social worker and politician ( SPD ).

Life

After graduating from secondary school, Köster was a regular soldier in the Air Force for six years . He then studied social work in Darmstadt and passed the state examination in 1970 . This was followed by a year of family and health care at the State Health Office in Memmingen . He then worked in adult education as a social secretary in the church service in the world of work (KDA) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria at the Augsburg and Ingolstadt / Neuburg branch . This was followed by training in methods of leisure and communication counseling as well as in mediation.

Köster was a member of the DEAE's “World of Tomorrow” project group on behalf of the Federal Minister for Education and Science, as well as volunteering in the field of communal and evangelical film work and as a specialist advisor for media education in the Swabian administrative region . From 1993 to 2008 he was in charge of the leisure and educational facility “House of Seniors” in the city of Kempten, and during this time he founded the Seniors Academy and the “Seniors Day”.

Köster has lived in Kempten (Allgäu) since 1970 and became a member of the city council there in 1972. From 1982 to 1986 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament . From 2008 to 2020 he was again a member of the city council. As a representative of the city council, he was responsible for the overall concept of senior citizens' policy for the city of Kempten and the municipal action plan for the implementation of the UN disability rights convention "Together with Kempten - MIK".

Web links

• Lothar Köster in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History